Pursuit of Europe - A History

The story of the evolution of the 'European project', from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to Brexit, this is also the story of how, and why, it become possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of Europe might be united in a single political community.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Remaking the Great European Family


• 2: The Birth of the Nation


• 3: The Scramble for the World


• 4: The War that Will end War


• 5: A New Order for Europe


• 6: Refashioning Europe


• 7: The Once and Future Europe


• Bibliography

About the author

Anthony Pagden has published widely on both Spanish and European history and has worked as a translator and as a publisher in addition to his many academic posts. He taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard before a professorship at Johns Hopkins University, and he is currently Distinguished Professor of Political Science and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Two of his publications, Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East and West (2008) and The Enlightenment: and Why It Still Matters (2013), were also published by Oxford University Press.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Pagden
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 18.09.2025
• EAN: 9780198984160
• ISBN: 978-0-19-898416-0
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General